Mature information systems grow old disgracefully as successive waves of hacking result in accidental architectures which resist the reflection of on-going business process change. Such petrified systems are termed legacy systems. Legacy systems are simultaneously business assets and business liabilities. Their hard-won dependability and accurate reflection of tacit business knowledge prevents ...

This paper presents a formal framework for human behavior modeling, analysis and validation. It proposes a competencies model for representing the position profile of an employee/candidate and it uses the Hierarchical Decision Process Petri nets (HDPPN) for simulating the behavior of an employee/candidate in a given business process. The competencies model consists of a definition model, an eva...

The Swiss eGovernment strategy promotes business process orientation of the public administration. Therefore public administrations have been strongly encouraged to document their business processes. The eCH standards have defined the foundations for the modeling. But in particular in smaller cantons and municipalities the business process identification and modeling can be considered as a seri...

The study is aimed at assessing the strategic importance of a business processes for achieving sustainable competitive advantage, therefore, in this article the theoretical approach for measuring the strategic contribution of a business process to an enterprise’s business system is presented.  For evaluating of a business process strategic importance the study proposes the system of economic an...

the use of human resource management (hrm) practices in the form of ‘bundles’ and in integration with the business strategy of the organisation have been emphasised throughout the hrm literature. these are called the horizontal integration and vertical integration respectively. this article aim at examining the use of these practices in liner shipping industry in which human element plays a vit...

the purpose of this research is to study the role of knowledge management in building an e-business strategy. in terms of purpose, nature and data collection, the research is respectively an applied, descriptive-survey and field study research. the population of the research consisted of two groups. the first one included 10 experts in the field of knowledge management and e-who determined the ...

In order to continuously improve its knowledge and to identify problems and possible solutions, an organization requires understanding the way business is aligned with the organizational strategy and how information systems are supporting the business. This paper presents a framework for describing and associating organizational concepts at multiple levels of detail using three separate areas o...

The importance of maintenance has escalated significantly by the increasing of automation in manufacturing process. This condition switches traditional maintenance perspective of inevitable cost into the business competitive driver. Consequently, maintenance strategy and operation decision needs to be synchronized to business and manufacturing concerns. This paper shows the development of conce...

Nowadays, digital technologies (e.g., big data, cloud and mobility) have changed the firms’ activities. Many firms begin to utilize digital resources to formulate and execute digital business strategy. However, there is little empirical research focusing on explaining this novel phenomenon. In this paper, we proposed a framework which describes the value creation and appropriation process of di...